Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Outbrain
The 20 closest native advertising alternatives to Outbrain, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 9 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Outbrain? The closest matches are RevContent, Taboola and Awin. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 17 ms
01 · Entity
About Outbrain
Outbrain outbrain.com
Wikidata: web advertising platform
Summary by Claude
Outbrain operates a content recommendation and native advertising network that places sponsored links and recommended articles on publisher websites, letting advertisers buy traffic and publishers monetize their pages.
- Who it’s for
- Advertisers, marketers and online publishers
- Business model
- Advertising revenue share
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Outbrain’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Outbrain
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Outbrain, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read outbrain.com’s homepage (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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RevContent | Performance-Driven Native Advertising Platform for Publishers & Advertisers
RevContent helps publishers and advertisers drive results with high-performing native ads. Grow your revenue and reach the right audiences across premium content environments.
Very close cos 0.938 - 02
Taboola: Performance Advertising & Gen AI Answers for Publishers
Advertisers get measurable results beyond search and social with Realize. Publishers win back engagement lost to AI search with DeeperDive answers on-site.
Very close cos 0.902 - 03
Join our global affiliate platform | Awin
Affiliate marketing is a simple way to earn money online, using our affiliate platform. Join a global community of publishers and advertisers.
Close cos 0.894 - 04
Zemanta - Programmatic Ad Technology Built for Performance
Zemanta offers Zemanta One, the world’s first multi-channel demand-side platform (DSP) built for performance.
Close cos 0.892 - 05
Buzzoola - innovative technologies for brands, publishers and ad platforms.
Ad Exchange with fast connection and access to the largest DSPs and SSPs. Programmatic buying of traffic from direct publishers on Web, In-App and Smart TV.
Close cos 0.892 - 06
Publisher monetization company
Close cos 0.887 - 07
Homepage - Mediavine
Smarter Monetization Starts Here Mediavine powers digital businesses with technology and data engineered to outperform. Our platform delivers cleaner delivery, stronger revenue, and long-term performance for publishers building what’s next. Trusted by 20,000+ publishers, built on technology proven to perform One Platform Built to Outperform Mediavine gives digital publishers a competitive advantage with technology designed...
Close cos 0.886 - 08
MGID: Native Performance & Programmatic Advertising Platform
Our vision is to nurture a new stage of digital media, enabling consumers to engage with content and sponsored advertisements in an equally positive way.
Close cos 0.886 - 09
Advertising Technology Company
Advertising Technology Company
Close cos 0.885 - 10
СМИ2
СМИ2 — простые решения для рекламодателей и монетизации. 40 млн+ охват, 4 млн кликов в сутки, 9000+ партнёров. 17 лет успеха в digital-рекламе.
Close cos 0.884 - 11
How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
Close cos 0.888 - 12
American media company
Close cos 0.885 - 13
Media.net | The Sell Side Platform for Greater Outcomes
We help brands and publishers leverage the best of programmatic, to achieve their goals across every screen.
Close cos 0.884 - 14
Ezoic — Grow on the open web
Billions of people visit premium websites and web apps every day. Ezoic puts your brand in front of them with bidsystem.ai.
Close cos 0.882 - 15
AdMaster | AI Advertising Platform
AdMaster: Bring your brands into the real lives of 2 billion users via AI.
Close cos 0.884 - 16
Publisher Ad Tech Platform — Control Your Programmatic Stack | Aditude
One platform. Complete control. Aditude unifies ad serving, intelligence, and demand for enterprise publishers ready to maximize revenue at scale.
Close cos 0.882 - 17
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Close cos 0.885 - 18
product discovery website
Close cos 0.882 - 19
Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility
Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.
Close cos 0.882 - 20
Raptive — Powering creator independence
CafeMedia and AdThrive are now Raptive, a new kind of company transforming creators into global brands and lasting businesses.
Close cos 0.879
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to outbrain.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Outbrain uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Outbrain is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms48668685
- DNS hosting
- NS1 NS dns3.p07.nsone.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=UrpC5i3QfZ0DphHh
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=K2pZI8j4PAtwLKglts49Jg
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=icFLpzAQo0SYmyrGll2mog5qb1q82Pe2Qg9OL…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=_R_H-hEdCxlWQPe_bec1i_7ArsyTVt_auZ0qxZws-Vo
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=95x6otar3mcobcgxek6mdupa35zj6b
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=lGWp08RFzCcoBJfVcPO1IH7W8rhxkIXB340WCHF7
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Outbrain adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- PHP · not on outbrain.com 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- WordPress · not on outbrain.com 8/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- Google Analytics · not on outbrain.com 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on outbrain.com 7/20
- Microsoft 365 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on outbrain.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on outbrain.com 6/20
- Google Fonts · not on outbrain.com 6/20
- HubSpot · not on outbrain.com 6/20
- nginx · not on outbrain.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on outbrain.com 5/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on outbrain.com 5/20